by James W. Ure
2. Ibid., p. 114–15.
3. Ibid., p. 111.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., pp. 121–22.
6. Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows 1st paperback ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), p. 19.
7. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 125.
8. Ibid., p. 126.
9. Ibid., p. 123.
10. Ibid., pp. 114–21.
11. Ibid., pp. 126–28.
12. Ibid., p. 130.
13. Ibid., p. 440n42, quoting general church minutes, April 20, 1845.
14. Ibid., p. 130.
15. Ibid., p. 131.
16. Jeffrey Ogden Johnson, “Determining and Defining ‘Wife’—the Brigham Young Households,” Dialogue, a Journal of Mormon Thought 20, no. 3 (Fall 1987): 57–70; Wikipedia, s.v. “List of Brigham Young's Wives,” last updated February 23, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brigham_Young%27s_wives (accessed August 23, 2017).
17. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 134.
18. Ibid., p. 136.
19. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, pp. 19–21.
CHAPTER 8: WESTWARD HO
1. John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), p. 143.
2. Ibid., p. 145.
3. Ibid., pp. 142–47.
4. Ibid., p. 144.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., p. 145.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., pp. 145–47.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., pp. 147–48.
12. Ibid., p. 152.
13. Ibid., p. 150.
14. Ibid., pp. 150–51.
15. Ibid., pp. 148–55.
16. Ibid., p. 151.
17. Ibid., p. 155.
18. Ibid., pp. 88–98.
19. Ibid., p. 162.
20. Ibid., p. 165.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., p. 166.
23. Ibid., p. 167.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., p. 168.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., pp. 172–73.
31. Ibid., p. 173.
32. Ibid., p. 175.
33. Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 1st paperback ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), p. 23.
34. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 176.
35. Ibid., p. 181.
CHAPTER 9: PAIUTE INDIANS
1. Howard Christy, “Open Hand and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, 1847–52,” Utah Historical Quarterly 46, no. 3 (1978), http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uaida/id/18090 (accessed July 28, 2016).
2. Ibid.
3. Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 1st paperback ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), p. 24n2.
4. Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson, “White and Delightsome or Pure and Delightsome? A Look at 2 Nephi 30:6,” Mormon Curtain, January 4, 2005, http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_whiteanddelightsome.html (accessed December 5, 2016).
5. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, p. 25.
6. Ibid., p. 24.
7. Ibid., p. 25.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., p. 26.
11. Ibid., p. 27.
12. Ibid., p. 28.
13. Ibid., p. 29.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., p. 28.
16. Ibid., p. 28.
17. Ibid., p. 29.
18. Ibid., p. 30.
19. J. Cecil Alter, Utah the Storied Domain: A Documentary History of Utah's Eventful Career, vol. 1 (Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1932), p. 142.
20. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, pp. 33–34.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., p. 30.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid., p. 31.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid., pp. 31–32.
30. Ibid., pp. 33–34.
31. Ibid., p. 34.
32. Ibid., p. 20.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid., pp. 19–21.
36. Ibid., p. 20.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., p. 19.
39. Ibid., p. 21.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid., p. 35.
47. Alter, Utah the Storied Domain, p. 140.
48. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, p. 35.
49. Ibid., p. 35.
50. Ibid., p. 36.
51. Ibid.
52. Ibid., pp. 36–37.
53. Ibid., p. 36.
54. Ibid., p. 37.
CHAPTER 10: A NEW MORMON NEWSPAPER
1. J. Cecil Alter, Utah the Storied Domain: A Documentary History of Utah's Eventful Career, vol. 1 (Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1932), p. 116.
2. Wendell J. Ashton, Voice in the West: Biography of a Pioneer Newspaper (New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1950); Wikipedia, s.v. “Deseret News,” last updated July 8, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_News (accessed August 23, 2017).
3. Wikipedia, s.v. “Deseret (Book of Mormon),” last updated June 30, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_(Book_of_Mormon) (accessed August 23, 2017).
4. Ashton, Voice in the West; Wikipedia, s.v. “Deseret News.”
5. Ibid.
6. John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), p 185.
7. Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 1st paperback ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), p. 23.
8. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 180.
9. Ibid.
10. Alter, Utah the Storied Domain, pp. 115–42.
11. Ibid., pp. 301–304.
12. Paul H. Peterson and Ronald Walker, “Brigham Young's Word of Wisdom Legacy,” BYU Studies 42, nos. 3–4 (2003), https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/brigham-youngs-word-wisdom-legacy (accessed September 3, 2016).
13. Wikipedia, s.v. “Walkara,” last updated July 20, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkara (accessed August 23, 2017).
14. Wikipedia, s.v. “John Williams Gunnison,” last updated July 23, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_Gunnison (accessed August 23, 2017).
15. Ibid.
16. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 231.
CHAPTER 11: SCAPEGOATING
1. John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), p. 249.
2. Steve Pratt, 1856–60, Handcarts: Construction Plans (Salt Lake City: Heritage Gateways, Utah State Office of Education and Utah System of Higher Education, 2016); Wikipedia, s.v. “Mormon Handcart Pioneers,” last updated August 14, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_handcart_pioneers (accessed August 23, 2017).
3. LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen, Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856–1860, paperback ed. (Glendale, CA: Arthur Clarke, 1981; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992), pp. 119–25; Wikipedia, s.v. “Mormon Handcart Pioneers.”
4. Hafen and Hafen, Handcarts to Zion, pp. 119–25.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. J. Cecil Alter, Utah the Storied Domain: A Documentary History of Utah's Eventful Career, vol. 1 (Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1932), p. 230.
9. Hafen and Hafen, Handcarts to Zion, pp. 134–38; Wikipedia, s.v. “Mormon Handcart Pioneers.”
10. Ibid.
11. Wallace Stegner, Gathering of Zion (Lincoln: Bison, University of Nebraska Press, 1992), p. 222; Wikipedia, s.v. “Mormon Handcart Pioneers.”
12. Alter, Utah
the Storied Domain, p. 228.
13. Ann Eliza Young, Wife No. 19: The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy (Hartford, CT: Dustin, Gilman, 1876), pp. 204–205; Wikipedia, s.v. “Mormon Handcart Pioneers.”
14. Encyclopedia of Mormonism, s.v. “Handcart Pioneers,” Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, 1992; Wikipedia, s.v. “Mormon Handcart Pioneers.”
15. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 334.
CHAPTER 12: BRIGHAM'S FURY AT THE FEDS AND CARPETBAGGERS
1. John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), p. 185.
2. Ibid., p. 187.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 186.
5. Ibid., p. 187.
6. Ibid., p. 188.
7. Ibid., p. 185.
8. Ibid., p. 196.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., p. 197.
11. Ibid., pp. 197–99.
12. Ibid., p. 199.
13. Ibid., p. 200.
14. Ibid., pp. 200–201.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., pp. 199–201.
18. Ibid., p. 201.
19. Ibid., p. 202.
20. Ibid., pp. 200–203.
21. Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 1st paperback ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), p. 41.
22. Ibid., p. 42.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., p. 42, quoting D. Michael Quinn; Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power (Salt Lake City: Signature, 1997), pp. 226, 260.
25. Ibid.
26. “Minutes of Conference: A Special Conference of the Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Assembled in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, August 28th, 1852, 10 o'clock, a.m., Pursuant to Public Notice,” Deseret News Extra, September 14, 1852, p. 14.
27. Matthew Bowman, The Mormon People (New York: Random House, 2012), p. 125.
28. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, pp. 42–43.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., p. 43.
31. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 246.
32. Ibid., p. 246.
33. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, p. 47.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid., p. 46.
36. Ibid., p. 47.
37. Hurt was a non-Mormon Indian agent and one of the first to learn that Mormons had been involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre, not just Indians. Ibid., pp. 162–63. He would later barely escape with his life as Mormons sought to capture and probably kill him to prevent him from telling what he knew. Ibid., pp. 179.
38. Ibid., p. 49.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid., p. 50.
42. Ibid.
43. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 375.
44. J. Cecil Alter, Utah the Storied Domain: A Documentary History of Utah's Eventful Career, vol. 1 (Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1932), p. 233.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid., p. 236.
48. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 273.
49. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, pp. 75–77.
50. Alter, Utah the Storied Domain, p. 236.
51. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 271.
52. Ibid., p. 268.
53. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, p. 80.
54. Ibid., p. 81.
55. Ibid., p. 89.
56. Ibid., p. 84.
CHAPTER 13: THE MASSACRE AT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
1. Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 1st paperback ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), p. 173.
2. Ibid.
3. Will Bagley, in discussion with the author, July 2, 2014.
4. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, p. 4.
5. John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), p. 279.
6. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, p. xv.
7. Ibid., pp. 54–68.
8. Ibid., pp. 68–72.
9. Ibid., p. 99.
10. Ibid., p. 111.
11. Ibid., p. 101.
12. Ibid., pp. 105–10.
13. Ibid., p. 115.
14. Ibid., p. 120.
15. Ibid., p. 119.
16. Ibid., p. 120.
17. Ibid., p. 119.
18. Ibid., p. 122.
19. Ibid., p. 123.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid., pp. 122–24.
22. Ibid., p. 125.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., pp. 133–34.
25. Ibid., p. 133.
26. Ibid., p. 134.
27. Ibid., p. 136.
28. Ibid., pp. 136–37.
29. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 277.
30. Ibid., p. 177.
31. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, p. 140.
32. Ibid., p. 141.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., p. 119.
35. Ibid., p. 141.
36. Ibid., p. 142.
37. Ibid., p. 144.
38. Ibid., p. 145.
39. Ibid., p. 146.
40. Ibid., p. 147.
41. Ibid., pp. 148–49.
42. Ibid., p. 149.
43. Ibid., p. 150.
44. Ibid., pp. 150–51.
45. Ibid., p. 151.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. Ibid., p. 153.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid., p. 154.
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid., p. 156.
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid.
60. Ibid., pp. 156–57.
61. Ibid.
62. Ibid., p. 158.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid., p. 133.
65. Ibid., pp. 156–61.
66. Ibid., p. 177.
CHAPTER 14: THE WAR THAT ALMOST WAS
1. Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 1st paperback ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), pp. 179–80.
2. Ibid., p. 181.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., p. 182.
7. Ibid., pp. 182–83.
8. Ibid., pp. 195–96.
9. John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), p. 287.
10. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, pp. 174–75.
11. Ibid., p. 175.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., p. 188.
14. Ibid., p. 189.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., p. 190.
17. Ibid., p. 191.
18. Ibid., p. 184.
19. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 290.
20. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, p. 186.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., p. 185.
25. Ibid., p. 197.
26. Ibid., p. 202.
27. Ibid., pp. 198–202.
28. Ibid., p. 202.
29. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 293.
30. Ibid., p. 294.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid., p. 295.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid., p. 296.
42. Ibid., p. 297.
43. Ibid., p. 295.
44. Ibid., p. 298.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, p. 206.
48. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 307.
49. Ibid., pp. 307–308.
50. Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, p. 225.
51. Ibid., pp. 226–27.
52. Ibid., p. 227.
53. Ibid., pp. 228–29.
54. Ibid., p. 228.
55. Ibid., p. 229.
56. Ibid., p. 230.
57. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 317.
58. Ibid., p. 297.
CHAPTER 15: “FANATICS AND WHORES”
1. John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), p. 313.
2. Ibid., p. 314.
3. Ibid., pp. 314–16.
4. Ibid., p. 315.
5. Ibid., p. 317.
6. Ibid., 317–18.
7. Wikipedia, s.v. “White Horse Prophecy,” last updated August 1, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_Prophecy (accessed August 23, 2017.).
8. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 320.
9. Ibid., p. 321.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., pp. 324–25.
14. Ibid., p. 322.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., p. 323.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., p. 328.
20. Utah Digital Newspapers, https://digitalnewspapers.org/newspaper/?paper=Union+Vedette (accessed September 27, 2017).
21. Ibid.
22. Turner, Brigham Young, pp. 328–39.
23. Ibid., p. 337.
24. J. Cecil Alter, Utah the Storied Domain: A Documentary History of Utah's Eventful Career, vol. 1 (Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1932), pp. 351–59.
25. Plaque at Fort Douglas Military Museum, visited by the author on September 6, 2016.
26. “Virtual Jewish World: Utah, United States,” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Utah.html (accessed September 6, 2016).
27. Alter, Utah the Storied Domain, p. 359.
28. William Fox, “Patrick Edward Connor, ‘Father’ of Utah Mining” (thesis, Brigham Young University, 1966), http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5695&context=etd (accessed September 27, 2017).
29. Alter, Utah the Storied Domain, p. 359.
30. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 349.
31. Michael D. Brasfield, “Squire Newton Brassfield,” Brasfield-Brassfield Genealogies, 2008, http://www.brasfield.net/histories/Squire%20Newton%20Brassfield.htm (accessed August 3, 2016).
32. Turner, Brigham Young, p. 349.
33. Ibid., pp. 349–50.
34. Ibid., p. 349.
35. Ibid., p. 350.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., p. 362.
39. Ibid.
CHAPTER 16: THE TRIBUNE AND ZCMI ARE BORN
1. Utah Digital Newspapers, https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/search?facet_paper=%22Union+Vedette%22&facet_type=issue&rows=50 (accessed September 30, 2017).
2. O. N. Malmquist, The First 100 Years: A History of the Salt Lake Tribune , 1871–1971 (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1971).
3. Ibid., p. 9.
4. John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), p. 354.